Gifts are like hooks.
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.