I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutu….

For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done..

No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers..

Whatever your advice, make it brief..

All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing..

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!.

A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.].

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back..

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him..

An accomplished man to his fingertips..

The covetous man is ever in want..

Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it..

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook..

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success i….

It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth..

The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse..

The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine..

Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue..

The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest..

Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand..

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little..