Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.

Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.

Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.

When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

Those they praise, but they read the others.

Be merry if you are wise.

It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.