Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.