The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Don't just think, do.

Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from.