Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

Brighter than Parian marble.

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.

Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.

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