Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.
I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.
A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.