Gold will be slave or master.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money?
Every old poem is sacred.
Poets wish to profit or to please.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
One night awaits all, and death’s path must be trodden once and for all.
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s house is in flames.
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
Justice though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
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