It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.
Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
Mistakes are their own instructors
Let your poem be kept nine years.