To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.

Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

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).

The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.