However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.