It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. [Lat., Tempus abire tibi….

A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried..

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit..

You are judged of by what you possess..

Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them..

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit..

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.].

The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home..

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest..

Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true..

The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn..

Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear..

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge..

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants..

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him….

In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears..

I am doubting what to do..

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it..

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last..

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails..

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty..