Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.
Victory is by nature superb and insulting.
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.
If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.
Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
All things considered, nothing is beautiful.