A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.

Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.