There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.
The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.
Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.