Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

Let the poor man mind his tongue

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

No man provokes me with impunity.

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.

O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]