Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.
The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.
A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.
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.
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.
It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
Gold will be slave or master.
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.
As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.
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.
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.
I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.
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.
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.
Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.
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.
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