Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of far travel we have come to our own home and rest on the couch we longed for? This it is which alone is worth all these toils.

There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.

My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do.

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale