How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.
Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.