Remember to be calm in adversity.

He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.