Laugh, if thou art wise.

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.

For wealth's now given to none but to the rich.

It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.

You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.

Be cheerful, if you are wise.