“What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.”

He who flees at the right time can fight again.

It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.

Nature made the fields and man the cities.

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.

What, if as said, man is a bubble.

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities.

He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends.

Not all who own a harp are harpers.

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?