Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour..

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme..

Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea..

If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy..

There is no retracing our steps..

Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?.

Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?].

Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tut….

Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature..

When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously..

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave..

He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake..

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye..

Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?.

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow..

The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.].

If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine..

Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn. [Lat., Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo.].

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.].

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were.

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of vi….