Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.