Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

Music is an incitement to love.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.