Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.
Half is done when the beginning is done.
Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.
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.
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.
Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.