Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]
Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.
Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?
Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
The man is either crazy or he is a poet.
Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.
There is nothing assured to mortals.
Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.
Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.
Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.
Anger is a brief lunacy.
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.
The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.
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.
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