Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.].

Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna l….

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person..

Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.].

The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret.].

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments..

Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not..

Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise..

A pauper in the midst of wealth..

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.].

Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace..

If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief..

Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity..

The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another..

The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?.

Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia….

Let Apella the Jew believe it..

A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.].

Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters..

Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain..

A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.].