Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.