What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
He writes nothing whose writings are not read.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.