Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.