The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.
Pleasure bought with pain does harm.
Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.