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.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone,he who can call today his own:he who, secure within, can say,Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.Be fair or foul, or rain or shinethe joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
Moreover, you can__ stand so much as an hour of your own companyor spend your leisure properly; you avoid yourself like a truantor fugitive, hoping by drink or sleep to elude Angst.But it__ no good, for that dark companion stays on your heels
Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)
Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)
he who is greedy is always in want
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.
Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith
In love there are two evils: war and peace.
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.