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.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

I have not hated the man, but his faults.

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

It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life

Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.