Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.
Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.