The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.
For the wise man, every day is a festival.
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.
Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.