Poets wish to profit or to please.
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.
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
She – philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.
Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men’s names.
Labor diligently to increase your property.
The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.
Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.
We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.