As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

To know all things is not permitted.