He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.
Amiability shines by its own light.
Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.