Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.
What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.