The flowing wave returns not, nor does the passing hour. Often when one god afflicts you another brings aid. Labors completed are pleasant. Tears contrived indicate treachery, not grief. The spoken word vanishes but the written letter remains.
Nothing is at once discovered and perfected.
Who argues with a drunken man harms one whoo isn t really there. A live dog is better than a dead lion. Who scorns the smaller gifts loses the bigger ones. Woman is more changeable than the winds. Nothing is more intolerable than a rich woman.