A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

Every lover is a soldier.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.””Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)

And besides, we lovers fear everything

Arrive before your Husband. Not that I canSee quite what good arriving first will do;But still arrive before him. When he’s takenHis place upon the couch and you go tooTo sit beside him, on your...

Ars est celaree artem.

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

And warns us to use life’s beauty as it blooms. The thorn is spurned when the rose has dropped.

Her clear conscience mocked rumour’s mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.

When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to cosmic parts, he first moulded the Earth into the form of...

Eis os únicos barcos que temos para voltar a nossa pátria; eis nosso único meio de escapar de Minos. Ele, que fechou todas as outras saídas, não pode fechar o ar para nós; resta-nos o...

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never...

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.

Omnia mutantur; nihil interit

There is a certain pleasure in weeping

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Fas est ab hoste doceri.One should learn even from one’s enemies.

Bene vixit, bene qui latuit.”(To live well is to live concealed.)

He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.

Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas” – “Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses

And now the measure of my song is done: The work has reached its end; the book is mine, None shall unwrite these words: nor angry Jove, Nor war, nor fire, nor flood, Nor venomous...