It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.
Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.