Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.