Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.

There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

Don't long for the unripe grape.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.