Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.
While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future
Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.
In giving advice I advise you, be short.
Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.