The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy. The just mean, which lies between the two extremes, is what I approve; I like neither that which tortures nor that which cloys.
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.