Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

Necessity is stronger than duty.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.