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

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

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn.

Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.

You will go most safely by the middle way.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

For no god may undo what another god has done...

Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

By yielding you may obtain victory

Venus is kind to creatures as young as we; We know not what we do, and while we’re young We have the right to live and love like gods.

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Hurry to your goal together. That is full bliss when man and woman lie equally conquered.

Darkness makes any woman fair.

My vengeance is my guilt

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

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

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

Bene vixit, bene qui latuit." (To live well is to live concealed.)

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

Their useless torches on dry hedges throw, That catch the flames, and kindle all the row; So burns the God, consuming in desire, And feeding in his breast a fruitless fire

Poetry comes fine spun from a mind at peace.