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.

The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.

The face that cannot smile is never fair.

The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed herself more plainly?

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!

It is folly to waste labour about trifles.

The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.