It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.