Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
Anger is a short madness.
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise.
Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Gold will be slave or master.
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.
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. -Horace.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.