A novice always behaves with propriety.
To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.