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.

For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

Joking apart, now let us be serious.

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

The grammarians are arguing.

Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.