Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.

Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

Nature is harmony in discord.

Leave the rest to the gods.