You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to husband by my wife. The mistress of the house should be subordinate to her husband, for in no other way, Priscus, will the wife and husband be on an equality.

Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.

Those they praise, but they read the others.

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.

While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred cosmetics boxes - even your face does not sleep with you.