Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.
O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.
The covetous man is ever in want.
Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!