See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?

For life is only life when blessed with health.

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.