For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

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

At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.

She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

Gold will be slave or master.

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.