Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.
The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men’s hovels and king’s palaces.
I strive to be brief, and become obscure.
This used to be among my prayers – a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden.
When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.
Summer treads on heels of spring.
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant’s threatening countenance.
Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.
There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.
Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest.
In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.