Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
He writes nothing whose writings are not read.
For wealth's now given to none but to the rich.
If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.
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.