As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.

If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.

Simplicity, very rare in our age.

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.