Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.
If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.
Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?
Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
Let your poem be kept nine years.
There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.