Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.
Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?