Let Apella the Jew believe it.

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.

In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.