Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

There exists no more difficult art than living.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

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.

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.