It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.
Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.
Character is simply habit long continued.
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.