A picture is a poem without words.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

This world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.

Anger is a short madness.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

The covetous man is ever in want.

There is measure in all things.

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.