Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

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.

When the candles are out all women are fair.

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.