Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)
Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)
Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.(Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)
Natales grate numeras?(Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man’s cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Anger is momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.
Fools through false shame conceal their open wounds.
It is courage courage courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity!
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
If matters go badly now they will not always be so.
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor’s house is on fire.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.
And may I live the remainder of my life … for myself may there be plenty of books and many years’ store of the fruits of the earth!
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
When your neighbor’s house is afire your own property is at stake.
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.
Pale death with impartial tread beats at the poor man’s cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
Dismiss the old horse in good time lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.
Choose a subject equal to your abilities think carefully what your shoulders may refuse and what they are capable of bearing.
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.
Cease to inquire what the future has in store and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Seize the day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow’s span to this day’s sum?
The changing year’s progressive plan Proclaims mortality to man.
Enjoy the present day trusting very little to the morrow.
He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin.
Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived and those that are at present respectable will drop out if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
Strange – is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.