Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
Wine and women bring misery.
Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear... But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure
He writes nothing whose writings are not read.
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
Be merry if you are wise.
Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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