Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.
Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.
There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.
Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.