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

Don't waste the opportunity.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.