Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
Drawing is the true test of art.
Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.
Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.
Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.
I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.
Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.
For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.
Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
One night awaits all, and death’s path must be trodden once and for all.
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.