If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it
The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.
...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.
Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings.
Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.