If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.