If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my master.]

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.

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

If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!

Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy. The just mean, which lies between the two extremes, is what I approve; I like neither that which tortures nor that which cloys.