Pleasure bought with pain does harm.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.
Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
Little folks become their little fate.
Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.
In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.
Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
Plant no other tree before the vine.
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
You are judged of by what you possess.