Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.

Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.

Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands.