When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
What ignorance there is in human minds.
No man provokes me with impunity.
Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.