Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

What's well begun is half done.

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?

The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

Leave the rest to the gods.