"Fortes indigne tuli Mihi insultare: te, nature dedecus, Quod ferre certe cogor, bis videor mori."

"Ill have I brook’d that nobler foes Should triumph o’er my dying woes: But, scorn of nature, forced to lie And take t…"

"Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you."

"He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own."

"That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines."

"By this story [The Fox and the Raven] it is shown how much ingenuity avails, and how wisdom is always an overmatch fo…"

"No one returns with good-will to the place which has done him a mischief."

"It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles."

"Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example."

"Come of it what may, as Sinon said."