Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.
By the favour of the heavens
No one is content with his own lot.
You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.