Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.