Those they praise, but they read the others.

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

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.

I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy. The just mean, which lies between the two extremes, is what I approve; I like neither that which tortures nor that which cloys.

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.