Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.Collection: Dust
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?Collection: Freedom
But when to-morrow comes, yesterday's morrow will have been already spent: and lo! a fresh morrow will be for ever making away with our years, each just beyond our grasp.Collection: Years
For Yesterday was once To-morrow.Collection: Procrastination
Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.Collection: Knowing
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.Collection: Men
He who conquers, endures.Collection: Conquer
The belly is the giver of genius.Collection: Food
The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.Collection: Teacher
Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.Collection: Advice
Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.Collection: Born
Live according to your income.Collection: Income
You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands.Collection: Strong
The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.Collection: Teacher
Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!Collection: Men
And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.Collection: Opinion
I know you even under the skin.Collection: Knowledge
Check disease in its approach.Collection: Disease
Oh, what a void there is in things.Collection: Void
The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.Collection: Men
Each man has his fancy.Collection: Men
Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.Collection: Affair
Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.Collection: Affair
Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor VenterCollection: Teacher
Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?Collection: Knowledge
Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense.Collection: Men
Things fit only to give weight to smoke.Collection: Giving