Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.