Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.
Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.
The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.
Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.