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.

You may envy every one, but no one envies you.

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

Hidden evils are most dreaded.

See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?

Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.

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.