Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

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?

Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today.

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.

A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.