I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.
The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.
You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.