The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

A greater liar than the Parthians.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.