You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.
Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.
That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.