Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

Put faith in one who's had experience.