No man provokes me with impunity.

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.

It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

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.

Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.