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

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

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

I commend you, Postumus, for kissing me with only half your lip; you may, however, if you please, withhold even the half of this half. Are you inclined to grant me a boon still greater, and even inexpressible? Keep this whole half entirely to yourself, Postumus.

It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.

Life's not just about being alive, but being well.

A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.