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

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.

If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.

I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.

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.

Be cheerful, if you are wise.