Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil t….

Check disease in its approach..

Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live..

O natal star, thou producest twins of widely different character. [Lat., Geminos, horoscope, varo Producis genio.].

The belly is the giver of genius..

Oh, what a void there is in things..

The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention..

You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands..

Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser..

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing..

Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear; 'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear. Survey thy soul, not what thou does appear, But what ….

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed..

Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there. [Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.].

He conquers who endures..

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays..

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own..

Thou art moist and soft clay; thou must instantly be shaped by the glowing wheel. [Lat., Udum et molle lutum es: nunc, nunc properandus et acri Finge….

The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight..

Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?.

Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.].