The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

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.

When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

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.

A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.

He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.