» How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
» The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
» Even savage animals can agree among themselves.
» What is the use of your pedigrees?
» Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
» All things may be bought in Rome with money.
» Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.
» We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
» It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
» They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.