Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.
What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.
Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.
It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.