As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it
Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.