Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
Be merry if you are wise.
The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.
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.
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.