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

Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.

The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

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

Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.