Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect..

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites an….

The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter..

Don't just put it off and think about it!.

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back..

His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour..

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!.

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, th….

Live mindful of how brief your life is..

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools..

The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life..

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise..

Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track..

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale..

Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away..

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 wri….

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers..

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale..

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them..

He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, Tha….

Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.].