Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?.

Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours..

Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?.

In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.].

Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire..

When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure..

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient..

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?.

He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and w….

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die..

Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country..

The man is either crazy or he is a poet..

In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion..

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him..

There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they ….

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more..

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one..

Boy, I loathe Persian luxury..

Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age..

He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold. [Lat., Qui studet optatam cursu coningere m….

It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink ….