One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.