Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

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

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.