Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
He who is greedy is always in want.
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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.
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.