"Invitas nullum nisi cum quo, Cotta, lavaris et dant convivam balnea sola tibi mirabar quare numquam me, Cotta, vocass…"

"I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee."

"Si post fata venit gloria, non propero."

"Vita non est vivere, sed valera vita est."

"Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba."

"Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere ‘Vivam’: Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie."

"Cineri gloria sera venit."

"Stop abusing my verses, or publish some of your own."

"You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter."

"Ride, si sapis."