If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!

There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.

The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.

A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.