What's well begun is half done.

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.

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

He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

Don't carry logs into the forest.

Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.