Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

Make a good use of the present.

One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.