Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]
Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.
May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]
Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.
We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.
It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.
God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.
Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.
My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.
Few love what they may have.
That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.
It is good to be taught even by an enemy
She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.
He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.
The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.
A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.
By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.
Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
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