He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days..

Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help..

Joking apart, now let us be serious..

Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvola….

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh..

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.].

It is grievous to be caught..

Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's exces….

By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!.

The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens..

Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that whic….

No poem was ever written by a drinker of water..

Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather th….

The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.].

To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible..

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death..

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent..

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give ….

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water..

God has joined the innocent with the guilty..

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you..