Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.
Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start.
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.
Every old poem is sacred.