Occupation: Writer Birth: 85 Bc Death: 43
He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time..
When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all..
Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!.
Cruelty isn't softened by tears; it feeds on them..
The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present..
A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss..
Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow..
He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill..
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion..
No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it..
It is sometimes wise to forget who we are..
Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely..
He who injures one man threatens many..
The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others.
It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?.
A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel..
It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid..
Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed.
We die as often as we lose a friend..
One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard..
What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered..