Live mindful of how brief your life is.
Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.
No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).
Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.
Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.