Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.

Nothing is swifter than rumor.

In giving advice I advise you, be short.

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.