Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.