Dripping water hollows out a stone
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)
When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.
That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.