Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
In a just cause it is right to be confident.