While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred cosmetics boxes - even your face does not sleep with you.

They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]

What quick wit is found in sudden straits!

It is folly to waste labour about trifles.

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

Laugh, if thou art wise.

It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.