It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to husband by my wife. The mistress of the house should be subordinate to her husband, for in no other way, Priscus, will the wife and husband be on an equality.
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.