Whatever your advice, make it brief.
If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
Force without reason falls of its own weight.
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.