"It is the duty of all persons, when affairs are the most prosperous, 12 then in especial to reflect within themselves in what way they are to endure adversity."

"Fortis fortuna adiuvat."

"I only wish I may see your head stroked down with a slipper."

"Many a time,… from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up."

"I took to my heels as fast as I could."

"I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination."

"It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms."

"Take care and say this with presence of mind."

"This and a great deal more like it I have had to put up with."

"Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus"

"Jupiter, now assuredly is the time when I could readily consent to be slain, lest life should sully this ecstasy with some disaster."

"I did not care one straw."

"The very flower of youth."

"I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want."

"Immortal gods! how much does one man excel another! What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool!"

"si istuc crederem/sincere dici, quidvis possem perpeti."

"It is up with you; all is over; you are ruined."

"Nullum est iam dictum quod non dictum sit prius."

"Modo liceat vivere, est spes."

"How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!"

"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly."

"Aliis si licet, tibi non licet."

"Ius summum saepe summa est malitia."

"What now if the sky were to fall?"

"Nil tam difficile est quin quaerendo investigari possit."

"Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it."

"Aquilæ senectus."

"Diem adimere aegritudinem hominibus."

"Periclum ex aliis facito tibi quod ex usu siet."

"Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto."

"Look you, I am the most concerned in my own interests."

"Amantium irae amoris integratio est."

"That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted, that "all had rather it were well for themselves than for another.""

"Hinc illae lacrimae."

"Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit."

"Of surpassing beauty and in the bloom of youth."

"Ne quid nimis."

"Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?"

"Litterae thesaurum est."

"Nam illi dies per somnum, nox officiis et oblectamentis vitae transigebatur; utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad famam protulerat, habebaturque non ganeo et profligator, ut plerique sua haurientium, sed erudito luxu. ac dicta factaque eius quanto solutiora et quandam sui neglegentiam praeferentia, tanto gratius in speciem simplicitatis accipiebantur. proconsul tamen Bithyniae et mox consul vigentem se ac parem negotiis ostendit. dein revolutus ad vitia seu vitiorum imitatione inter paucos familiarium Neroni adsumptus est, elegantiae arbiter, dum nihil amoenum et molle adfluentia putat, nisi quod ei Petronius adprobavisset. unde invidia Tigellini quasi adversus aemulum et scientia voluptatum potiorem."

"We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."

"Foeda est in coitu et brevis voluptas et taedet Veneris statim peractae. Non ergo ut pecudes libidinosae caeci protinus irruamus illuc (nam languescit amor peritque flamma); sed sic sic sine fine feriati et tecum iaceamus osculantes. Hic nullus labor est ruborque nullus: hoc iuvit, iuvat et diu iuvabit; hoc non deficit incipitque semper."

"Horatii curiosa felicitas."

"Raram fecit mixturam cum sapientia forma."

"Qualis dominus talis est servus."

"Qui non valet lotium suum."