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.

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.

The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.

Hidden evils are most dreaded.

You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.

There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.