To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

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.

Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.

Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.

Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.