For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.