Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.

Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

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

Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.