The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.

Endure and persist, this pain will turn good by and by.

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

There is something in omens.

He who can believe himself well, will be well.

The heavier crop is ever in others’ fields.

Keep a mid course between two extremes.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

This also — that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one’s guilt by one’s looks.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Time, the devourer of all things.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

To give requires good sense.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Love is a kind of warfare.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

He who says o’er much I love not is in love.

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

An evil life is a kind of death.

To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

There is a god within us.