Dedicate one's life to truth.
We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses.