He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.

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

Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.

Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.

If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

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.