What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.
What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.
Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.
It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.
Lente, lente currite, noctis equi. Translation: Run slowly, slowly, horses of the night.
To give requires good sense.
Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
We two are to ourselves a crowd.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes: The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze, Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die.
The burden becomes light that is shared by love.
To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.
If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.
A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
He, who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow.
You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
Love is an affair of credulity.
When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
Tempus fugit (time flies).
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.
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