However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.

I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.

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.