We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss..

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

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt..

It is difficult to fly without wings..

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

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

Badly gotten, badly spent. [Lat., Male partum, male disperit.].

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush..

I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dum….

Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce more trouble if you begin to equip them;….

I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it..

Your wealth is where your friends are.

Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris, Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.].

I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.].

It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke..

He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward..

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

He can do most who has most power..

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell..

The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my da….

Enemies carry a report in form different from the original..