Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.
Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.