Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.

The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.