 You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back. |
| What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. |
| Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. |
| The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. Topics: Anger |
| Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. |
| Leave the rest to the gods. |
| It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire. |
| Don't think, just do. |
| While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one. |
| Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. |
| It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. |
| Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. |
| It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while. |
| No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. |
| Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. |
| Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born. |
| Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze. |
| Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. |
| It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country. |
| He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long. |
