No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.
Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
God made not pleasures for the rich alone.
Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]
The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.