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.
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.
Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.