It is sweet and honorable to die for your country..

Anger is a short madness..

Music is an incitement to love..

Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror..

One Sallow does not make Summer..

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others..

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them..

It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion..

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince..

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, tha….

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning..

On day is pressed on by another..

Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow..

Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away..

Force without reason falls of its own weight..

Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor..

Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem..

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain..

The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant..

O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.].

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Fal….