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And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

What advice you give, be short.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

I strike the stars with by sublime head.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly.

No steps backward.

The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire, nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

He has hay on his horns.

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

Drawing is the true test of art.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

What's well begun, is half done.

To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise.

In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna.

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet .