I commend you, Postumus, for kissing me with only half your lip; you may, however, if you please, withhold even the half of this half. Are you inclined to grant me a boon still greater, and even inexpressible? Keep this whole half entirely to yourself, Postumus.

I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

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

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

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.

It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure