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

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Don't waste the opportunity.

In giving advice I advise you, be short.

And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.