After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

Carthage must be destroyed.

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternatives.