If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.

When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy. The just mean, which lies between the two extremes, is what I approve; I like neither that which tortures nor that which cloys.

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

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.

Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.

He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.