We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.
I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.
Better to accept whatever happens.
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.