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.

Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

We are deceived by the appearance of right.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.

Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.