Live mindful of how brief your life is.
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.
What's well begun is half done.
Death is the last limit of all things.
No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.