Make a good use of the present.
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.
Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.
Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.
I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.