A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.
As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.
He who is greedy is always in want.
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
Don’t yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Get money first; virtue comes after.
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
Every old poem is sacred.
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth...
You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
What’s well begun is half done.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
A picture is a poem without words.