You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.
You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.
Anger is a brief lunacy.
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.
The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.
For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.
Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]
In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.
Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.
Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.
A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity. [Lat., Sperat infestis, metuit secundis Alteram sortem, bene preparatum Pectus.]
Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.
There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]
In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.
Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.
Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.
No one is content with his own lot.
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.
Wine unlocks the breast.
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
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