In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
And may I live the remainder of my life ... for myself may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of the earth!
In times of stress be bold and valiant.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance...
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
The man is either mad or he is making verses.
When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that...
Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived and those that are at present respectable will drop out if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the c...
Choose a subject equal to your abilities think carefully what your shoulders may refuse and what they are capable of bearing.
Faults are soon copied.
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not a...
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
Let your poem be kept nine years.
He possesses dominion over himself and is happy who can every day say "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds or cheer it with clear sunshine he w...
Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.