Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.
If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?