“Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.”
“It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.”
“If you wish me to weep, you yourselfMust first feel grief.”
“I had rather seem mad and a sluggard, so that my defects are agreeable to myself, or that I am not pinfully conscious of them, than be wise, and chaptious.”
“Carpe diem."(Odes: I.11)”
“Struggling to be brief I become obscure.”