Occupation: Writer Birth: 85 Bc Death: 43
Every one excels in something in which another fails..
It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived..
An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor..
No one knows what he can do till he tries..
Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one..
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation..
Give your friend cause to blush, and you will be likely to lose him..
We may with advantage at times forget what we know..
Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends..
Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it..
He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice..
That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions..
We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all..
Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself..
Friendship neither finds nor makes equals..
You should not live one way in private, another in public..
Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt..
When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended..
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar..
No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another..
It is vain to look for a defense against lightning..