Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
We are free to yield to truth.
While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.
Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.
If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.
Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.
A person will gain everyone’s approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Deep in the cavern of the infant’s breast; the father’s nature lurks, and lives anew.
Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.
Victory is by nature superb and insulting.
I want to live, and die with you.
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.
I was what you are, you will be what I am.