I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my master.]

Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.

There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. -James Oliver 'Tomorrow I will live,' the fool does say; tomorrow itself is late; the wise live yesterday.

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 shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed herself more plainly?

Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.