Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.