Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

By the favour of the heavens