The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
It is difficult not to write satire.
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.