Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is..

Fire is next akin to smoke..

A mouse does not rely on just one hole..

The gods play games with men as balls..

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

Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!.

How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done! [Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!].

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days..

The evil that we know is best..

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nul….

Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils. [Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.].

'He means well' is useless unless he does well..

Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire..

Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!.

Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning..

It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand..

That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will..

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.].

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.].

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound..

This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler. [Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino est, Pedes captat primum; luctator ….