"Live mindful of how brief your life is."

"Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat. (Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)"

"Happy the man, and happy he alone,he who can call today his own:he who, secure within, can say,Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.Be fair or foul, or rain or shinethe joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour."

"In times of stress be bold and valiant."

"One cannot know everything."

"Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself."

"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."

"Dismiss the old horse in good time lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh."

"The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable."

"Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit. (What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)"

"Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze."

"We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others."

"Life is largely a matter of expectation."

"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."

"Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers."

"Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge."

"Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much."

"Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them."

"Fidelity is the sister of justice."

"Poets wish to profit or to please."

"Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work."

"It is your business when the wall next door catches fire."

"Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money."

"A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them."

"Natales grate numeras?(Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)"

"Words will not fail when the matter is well considered."

"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."

"Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least."

"Leave the rest to the gods."

"Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things."

"Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour."

"You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot."

"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."

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

"A word once uttered can never be recalled."

"So, if you don't summon a book and a light before dawn,If you don't set your mind on honest aims and pursuits,On waking, you'll be tortured by envy or lust.Why so quick to remove a speck from your eye, whenIf it's your mind, you put off the cure till next year?Who's started has half finished: dare to be wise: begin!"

"Better to accept whatever happens."

"Every old poem is sacred."

"Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."

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

"Enjoy the present day trusting very little to the morrow."

"He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long."

"A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably."

"Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)"

"Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?"

"It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement."

"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. (Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)"

"Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger."

"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune."

"And may I live the remainder of my life ... for myself may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of the earth!"