You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.

He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.

Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?

Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.