No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.
As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.
Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.
Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.
Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.
Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul’s lictor, can dispel the mind’s bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.
Nothing is achieved without toil.
Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.
The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.
Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.
Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.