Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.
Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.
He is always a slave who cannot live on little.
Labor diligently to increase your property.
The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.