The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. Votes: 7
Wine and women bring misery. Votes: 7
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.] Votes: 6
A vagrant is everywhere at home. Votes: 4
If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.] Votes: 2
Be cheerful, if you are wise. Votes: 0
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day. Votes: 0
Be merry if you are wise. Votes: 0
Gifts are like hooks. Votes: 0
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, "I do not love thee." Votes: 0
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich. Votes: 0
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched. Votes: 0
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them. Votes: 0
Laugh, if thou art wise. Votes: 0
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams. Votes: 0
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder! Votes: 0
Spare the person but lash the vice. Votes: 0
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be. Votes: 0
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. Votes: 0
The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done. Votes: 0
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday. Votes: 0
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen. Votes: 0
Hidden evils are most dreaded. Votes: 0