Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

Wisdom is the winner over good luck.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.