No one can keep a mask on long.

Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.

In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.