Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.

The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.