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

Be merry if you are wise.

Those they praise, but they read the others.

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

While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.

Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.