I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.