Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu; Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]

Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

The gods play games with men as balls

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]