Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.