It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.

What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.

I bend and do not break.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

But the shortest works are always the best.

How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.