You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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?
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.