"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise."

"He has the deed half done who has made a beginning."

"He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful."

"It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure."

"This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist."

"Let your poem be kept nine years."

"Anger is a brief madness."

"The pen is the tongue of the mind."

"Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror."

"Labor diligently to increase your property."

"Fools through false shame conceal their open wounds."

"In love there are two evils: war and peace."

"Faults are soon copied."

"You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all."

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

"We are free to yield to truth."

"It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit."

"Nothing's beautiful from every point of view."

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

"In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town."

"Moreover, you can't stand so much as an hour of your own companyor spend your leisure properly; you avoid yourself like a truantor fugitive, hoping by drink or sleep to elude Angst.But it's no good, for that dark companion stays on your heels."

"Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace."

"We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest."

"Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)"

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

"A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius."

"There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed."

"Rule your mind or it will rule you."

"Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings."

"No one is content with his own lot."

"The story is told of yourself."

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

"I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well."

"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone."

"Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?"

"It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire."

"The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice."

"Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings."

"What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance."

"If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself."

"Never despair."

"Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too."

"He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin."

"He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world."

"It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country."

"The changing year's progressive plan Proclaims mortality to man."

"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."

"Riches either serve or govern the possessor."

"We are just statistics, born to consume resources."

"While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one."