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In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.
If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.
Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.
While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.
He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.
By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]
Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.
Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.
God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.
Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.
Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.
A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.
The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?
Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday.
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.
If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.
Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.
Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.
The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.
Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.
Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.
These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.
Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.
Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.
Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.