Be smart, drink your wine.
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.
Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.
You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.
A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.
When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.
I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.
Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.
The covetous man is ever in want.
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?