Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. Votes: 16
Whatever advice you give, be short. Votes: 12
A picture is a poem without words. Votes: 5
The pen is the tongue of the mind. Votes: 4
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass. Votes: 0
Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude (He who has begun is half done: dare to know!). Votes: 0
Anger is short-lived madness. Votes: 0
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. Votes: 0
Carpe diem. (Seize the day.) Votes: 0
It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape. Votes: 0
Fidelity is the sister of justice. Votes: 0
Get money first; virtue comes after. Votes: 0
He who is greedy is always in want. Votes: 0
Busy idleness urges us on. Votes: 0
Music is an incitement to love. Votes: 0
Mistakes are their own instructors Votes: 0
Don't carry logs into the forest. Votes: 0
There is a middle ground in things. Votes: 0
I want to live, and die with you. Votes: 0
The grammarians are arguing. Votes: 0
The words can not return. Votes: 0
The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.] Votes: 0
What has not wasting time impaired? Votes: 0
Boy, I loathe Persian luxury. Votes: 0
Punishment follows close on crime. Votes: 0
Nothing is swifter than rumor. Votes: 0
Fidelity is the sister of justice Votes: 0
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings Votes: 0
Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit. Votes: 0
he who is greedy is always in want Votes: 0
Rule your mind or it will rule you. Votes: 0
Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith Votes: 0
Be smart, drink your wine. Votes: 0
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death. Votes: 0
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. Votes: 0
O imitators, you slavish herd! Votes: 0
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score. Votes: 0
Make a good use of the present. Votes: 0
A crafty knave needs no broker. Votes: 0
A good resolve will make any port. Votes: 0
A greater liar than the Parthians. Votes: 0
A man of refined taste and judgment. Votes: 0
A man perfect to the finger tips. Votes: 0
A pauper in the midst of wealth. Votes: 0
A picture is a poem without words Votes: 0
A poem is like a painting. Votes: 0
A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.] Votes: 0
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure. Votes: 0
All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.] Votes: 0
Amiability shines by its own light. Votes: 0
An undertaking beset with danger. Votes: 0
Anger is a momentary madness. Votes: 0
Anger is a short madness. Votes: 0
Anger is momentary madness. Votes: 0
As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow. Votes: 0
Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy. Votes: 0
Believe it, future generations. Votes: 0
Better to accept whatever happens. Votes: 0
Books have their destinies. Votes: 0
Brighter than Parian marble. Votes: 0
By the favour of the heavens Votes: 0
Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow. Votes: 0
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants. Votes: 0
Don't just think, do. Votes: 0
Don't long for the unripe grape. Votes: 0
Don't waste the opportunity. Votes: 0
Drawing is the true test of art. Votes: 0
Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out. Votes: 0
Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you. Votes: 0
Dull winter will re-appear. Votes: 0
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.] Votes: 0
Faults are soon copied. Votes: 0
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches. Votes: 0
From the egg to the apple. Votes: 0
Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.] Votes: 0
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. Votes: 0
Gold will be slave or master. Votes: 0
Hatched in the same nest. Votes: 0
He can afford to be a fool. Votes: 0
He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable. Votes: 0
He is not poor who has a competency. Votes: 0
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise. Votes: 0
However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune. Votes: 0
Humble things become the humble. Votes: 0
I am doubting what to do. Votes: 0
I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind. Votes: 0
I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine. Votes: 0
I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods. Votes: 0
I shall not altogether die. Votes: 0
I shall not completely die. Votes: 0
I teach that all men are mad. Votes: 0
In my integrity I'll wrap me up. Votes: 0
It is delightful to play the fool. Votes: 0
It is grievous to be caught. Votes: 0
It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will. Votes: 0
Joking apart, now let us be serious. Votes: 0
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note. Votes: 0
Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends. Votes: 0
Leave the rest to the gods. Votes: 0
Let Apella the Jew believe it. Votes: 0
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself. Votes: 0
Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale. Votes: 0
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it. Votes: 0
Let your poem be kept nine years. Votes: 0
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not. Votes: 0
Limbs of a dismembered poet. Votes: 0
Luck cannot change birth. Votes: 0
Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem. Votes: 0
Most virtue lies between two vices. Votes: 0
Nature is harmony in discord. Votes: 0
Never despair. [Nil desperandum.] Votes: 0
No man is born without faults. Votes: 0
No one is content with his own lot. Votes: 0
Nonsense, now and then, is pleasant. Votes: 0
Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits. Votes: 0
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness. Votes: 0
Nothing is achieved without toil. Votes: 0
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading. Votes: 0
On day is pressed on by another. Votes: 0
One cannot know everything. Votes: 0
One Sallow does not make Summer. Votes: 0
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king. Votes: 0
Plant no other tree before the vine. Votes: 0
Pleasure bought with pain does harm. Votes: 0
Poets wish to profit or to please. Votes: 0
Remember to be calm in adversity. Votes: 0
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise. Votes: 0
Small things become small folks. Votes: 0
Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.] Votes: 0
Sometimes even excellent Homer nods. Votes: 0
Summer treads on heels of spring. Votes: 0
Take heed lest you stumble. Votes: 0
Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel. Votes: 0
Tear thyself from delay. Votes: 0
The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more. Votes: 0
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also. Votes: 0
The bowl dispels corroding cares. Votes: 0
The covetous are always in want. Votes: 0
The covetous man is ever in want. Votes: 0
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another. Votes: 0
The glory is for those who deserve. Votes: 0
The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard. Votes: 0
The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens. Votes: 0
The same night awaits us all. Votes: 0
The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear. Votes: 0
There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.] Votes: 0
There is measure in all things. Votes: 0
There is moderation in everything. Votes: 0
There is no retracing our steps. Votes: 0
There is nothing assured to mortals. Votes: 0
This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden Votes: 0
To drink away sorrow. Votes: 0
To grow a philosopher's beard. Votes: 0
To know all things is not permitted. Votes: 0
To teach is to delight. Votes: 0
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.] Votes: 0
Virtue consists in fleeing vice. Votes: 0
We are free to yield to truth. Votes: 0
We get blows and return them. Votes: 0
We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously. Votes: 0
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? Votes: 0
Whatever your advice, make it brief. Votes: 0
What's well begun is half done. Votes: 0
When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars, And shatters locks to thunder forth her wars. Votes: 0
Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.] Votes: 0
Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.] Votes: 0
Who's started has half finished. Votes: 0
Wine unlocks the breast. Votes: 0
Wisdom at times is found in folly. Votes: 0
Words challenge eternity. Votes: 0
Work at it night and day. Votes: 0
Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away. Votes: 0
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. Votes: 0
Every old poem is sacred. Votes: 0
Anger is a brief lunacy. Votes: 0
Anger is brief madness Votes: 0