Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do – A little more than they whose grief is true.
I teach that all men are mad.
Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth’s fruits.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement.
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
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.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.