He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.

If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to husband by my wife. The mistress of the house should be subordinate to her husband, for in no other way, Priscus, will the wife and husband be on an equality.

A novice always behaves with propriety.

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.