“You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.”

It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.

I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.

Our days pass by, and are scored against us.

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?

Life is not living, but living in health.

You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.

Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.

Birds of a feather will flock together.

Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.

Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.

Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.

Be cheerful, if you are wise.

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Language is the light of the mind.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames.

If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.