“If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.”

Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

You must spend money, if you wish to make money.

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.

The evil that we know is best.

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.

You will stir up the hornets.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.

Some of them are wearing skirts that I’m pretty sure are supposed to be belts.

Of course, it’s always complicated to shoot a sex scene.

Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it.

I just want to keep the diversity and the options open.

Build health or produce disease in yourself.

Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.