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?

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy. The just mean, which lies between the two extremes, is what I approve; I like neither that which tortures nor that which cloys.

Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

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?

I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, "I do not love thee."