He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?