No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.
As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.
Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.