If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.
The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.
It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.
Don't long for the unripe grape.
Poets wish to profit or to please.
Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.