They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.

Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

Hidden evils are most dreaded.