Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.
Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Half is done when the beginning is done.