An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
Out of the frying pan into the fire.
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
Very little is needed to make a happy life.