What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.
The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.
You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.
As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.
While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future