Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.
It is ill to marry in the month of May.
Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.
What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.
That you may be beloved, be amiable.
The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.