Be merry if you are wise.

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.

For life is only life when blessed with health.

Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man's field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.