Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
MartialIf you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
MartialI seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
Martial