Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

It is grievous to be caught.