What with your friend you nobly share, At least you rescue from your heir.

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.

When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Dull winter will re-appear.

Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.