Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.
Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.