In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.

As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.