The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
Get money first; virtue comes after.
Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.
When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.