Wisdom at times is found in folly.

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

Anger is brief madness

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

Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.