Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure
Work divided is in that manner shortened.