Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Bear patiently with a rival.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

Against the bold, daring is unsafe.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Time is the devourer of all things.

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

You will go most safely in the middle.

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

The gods behold all righteous actions.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

First appearance deceives many.

Every lover is a soldier.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

Love is full of anxious fears.

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.