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.
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.
Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.