All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

Summer treads on heels of spring.

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

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.

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

No one is content with his own lot.

Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.