It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.
That I make poetry and give pleasure – if I give pleasure – are because of you.
He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, “I have lived.” Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.
Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. – Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
In love there are two evils: war and peace.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.