Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.
Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.
Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?
Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.
Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]