Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

To know all things is not permitted.

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.