He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.

There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.

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

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.

Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.