Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

The dispute is still before the judge.

He is praised by some, blamed by others.

Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.