Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.