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.
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
Nothing is swifter than rumor.
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
Anger is short-lived madness.