Envy aims very high.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

You will go most safely in the middle.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Skill makes love unending.

Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

Art lies by its own artifice.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when...

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Time is generally the best doctor.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Venus favors the bold.

Love is full of anxious fears.

The gods behold all righteous actions.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Habits change into character.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

‘Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.