The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

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.

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

There is a middle ground in things.

He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.