What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.