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

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

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.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow![Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.