You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.
What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!
Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.
Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.
Those that are little, little things suit.
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
Poets wish to profit or to please.
Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.
Tear thyself from delay.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.