The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.
Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.
The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.
Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.
If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.
Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.