When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
Lente, lente currite, noctis equi. Translation: Run slowly, slowly, horses of the night.
What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.
Put faith in one who's had experience.
There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.
God himself helps those who dare.
While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
The burden becomes light that is shared by love.
Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.
Nothing is swifter than our years.
He, who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow.
Tempus fugit (time flies).
A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.
This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.
It is ill to marry in the month of May.
Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.
Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished.
It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]
We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.
Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker. [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]
Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.
Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things.
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