Occupation: Poet Birth: December 8, 65 Bc Death: November 27, 8 Bc
The grammarians are arguing..
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?.
One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness..
There is measure in all things..
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure..
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything..
It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own..
Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with w….
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death..
What's well begun is half done..
God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble..
As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits..
The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue..
There are faults we would fain pardon..
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt..
Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses..
We are just statistics, born to consume resources..
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading..
Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori Coelum, negata ….
Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice..
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note..