It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.
Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.
Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.