If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

A novice always behaves with propriety.

Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.

I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.

Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today.