Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
They only babble who practise not reflection
Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
We are not all great because we are inspired, but we feel great because we are.
A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.