Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.

Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.

Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.

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.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.