In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?
Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.