Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.

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

Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

Anger is brief madness