Occupation: Writer Birth: 85 Bc Death: 43
Solitude is the mother of anxieties..
If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft..
Even when the wound is healed the scar remains..
God looks with favor at pure, not full, hands..
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent..
Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it..
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws..
He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one..
No good man ever became suddenly rich..
A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy..
Life is short, but its ills make it seem long..
A pleasant companion reduces the length of the journey..
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body..
Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend..
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage..
The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules..
Humility neither falls far, nor heavily..