O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]
God made not pleasures for the rich alone.
We are free to yield to truth.
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]
She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.
Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.
Live mindful of how brief your life is.
Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.
Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.
You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.
In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.
While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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