You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.

Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.

I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

What's well begun is half done.

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?

Faults are soon copied.