Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.

Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.

Gold will be slave or master.

I teach that all men are mad.