Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.