Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
I know all that better than my own name.
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.