Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Anger is short-lived madness.
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.
As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
Half is done when the beginning is done.