Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.