He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.
Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.