Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.