What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.
Joking apart, now let us be serious.
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.