I know all that better than my own name.

Gifts are like hooks.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.

Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to husband by my wife. The mistress of the house should be subordinate to her husband, for in no other way, Priscus, will the wife and husband be on an equality.

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

However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

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