Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.
If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.
When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.
The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.