Victory is by nature superb and insulting.
What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.
Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.