Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.
The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.
Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.