If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.
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.