It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.

I do not hate the man, but his vices.

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

He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.

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

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.

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