Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.