Occupation: Writer Birth: 85 Bc Death: 43
Shun an angry man for a moment-your enemy forever..
He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age..
It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay..
Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay..
He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck..
Practice is the best of all instructors..
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth..
No tears are shed when an enemy dies..
Not every question deserves an answer..
That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy..
Every madman considers everyone else a madman..
Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail..
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery..
A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle..
Never promise more than you can perform..
We must master our good fortune, or it will master us..
The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters..
All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom..
The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great..
Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own..
In every enterprise consider where you would come out..