When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.