Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?

I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.