Occupation: Writer Birth: 85 Bc Death: 43
Death laughs when old women frolic..
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent..
Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it..
When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love..
The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted..
What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?.
Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken..
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all..
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force..
How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!.
It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny..
When you are at sea, keep clear of the land..
To die at the command of another is to die twice..
That should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation..
A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying..
Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old..
Wine has drowned more than the sea..
The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire..
The highest condition takes rise in the lowest..
The further the fall, the greater the hurt..
The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy..