Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Be smart, drink your wine.

Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.