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.

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

The face that cannot smile is never fair.

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.

Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. -James Oliver 'Tomorrow I will live,' the fool does say; tomorrow itself is late; the wise live yesterday.