The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.
While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.