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.
Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.
All things may be bought in Rome with money.
Be gentle with the young.
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]