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.

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

Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

No one every suddenly became depraved.