Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.