Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy..

While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest..

He can afford to be a fool..

He is always a slave who cannot live on little..

Poets wish to profit or to please..

Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires..

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start.

Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits..

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice..

There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.].

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices..

Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner..

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever..

It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor..

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres..

Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome..

This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture..

Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward..

Life is largely a matter of expectation..

Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the ….

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so..