All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.

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.

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.