You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.
What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.