“We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.”

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

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

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

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.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

I am myself my own commander.

All I need is your touch to feel alive and to get drunk off your presence.

Plain as a nose in a man’s face.

What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

She’s pretty amazing.

Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.

Connecting expands possibilities – in work and in life – for ourselves as well as for others.