When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.
Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.
High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.
As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.