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

You are judged of by what you possess.

The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")

I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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