What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

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

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

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.

If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.