No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

Get money first; virtue comes after.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

No master can make me swear blind obedience.

I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.