The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.

The best of things, beyond their measure, cloy.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

The hearts of the great can be changed.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.

Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales, And the good suffers while the bad prevails.

Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.