A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.
Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.