Life is not living, but living in health.

While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.

Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.

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.

You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.

You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.

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