The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
Laugh, if thou art wise.
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.