Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.

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