You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.

She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.

You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.

Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.

He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.