Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et Q….

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit..

And seek for truth in the groves of Academe..

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind..

Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor alwa….

Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.].

What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed..

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion..

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion..

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth..

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

We are free to yield to truth..

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony..

There are as many preferences as there are men..

That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else..

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity..

I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning..

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking..

To grow a philosopher's beard..

Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind..

We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth. [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimu….