Occupation: Writer Birth: 85 Bc Death: 43
A good reputation is more valuable than money..
The best remedy for an injury is to forget it..
There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of..
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell..
He can best avoid a snare who knows how to set one..
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything..
Apathy borders upon folly..
Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?.
Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it]..
Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad..
An angry father is most cruel towards himself..
I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent..
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not..
Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents..
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay..
Divide the fire, and you will the sooner put it out..
An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage..
There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have..
Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent..
Every question does not deserve an answer..
Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur.