All your female friends are either old or ugly; nay, more ugly than old women usually are. These you lead about in your train, and drag with you to feasts, porticos and theaters. Thus, Fabulla, you seem handsome, thus you seem young.

Work divided is in that manner shortened.

If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.

To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.

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

Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.

Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.