The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do..

Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance..

He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in….

Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares..

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!.

Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove..

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars..

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom..

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand..

Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed fro….

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader..

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing..

The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man..

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly..

Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future..

Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow..

He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.].

Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.].

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin..

Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.].

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue..