No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.

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.

Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.

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.

Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.

No man is quick enough to enjoy life.