“Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense,The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were”

“This is a fault common to singers that among their friends they were never inclined to sing when they were asked, unasked they never desist.”

“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.”

“He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.”

“What we read with pleasure we read again with pleasure.”

“Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.”

“What you have not published, you can destroy. The word once sent forth can never be recalled.”