Laugh, if thou art wise.

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

You may envy every one, but no one envies you.

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?

Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.

Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man's field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.

No man is quick enough to enjoy life.