Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?
The glory is for those who deserve.
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.