A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.
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.
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.