Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.
Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.
And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.