A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.
When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.
Who's started has half finished.