A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.