Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

To lay down one's life for the truth.