Those who covet much suffer from the want.
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.
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.
To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.