Art lies in concealing art.

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.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.

This victory will be your I ruin.