Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.
Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]
One cannot know everything.
The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.
What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.
As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]
Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.
Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")
Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.
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