Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.
Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.