Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.
To give requires good sense.
Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.