It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale
But you shall not escape my iambics.