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.
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.
Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.
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.
Music is an incitement to love.
Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]
I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.
Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
I shall not altogether die.
Every old poem is sacred.
The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.
All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]
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