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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.

For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness?

You will swim without cork .

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises.

Humble things become the humble.

Busy idleness urges us on.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

I teach that all are men are mad.

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.