Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.
The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.
Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.
All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.
Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.