Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

he who is greedy is always in want

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.

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.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

In love there are two evils: war and peace.

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.)

Moreover, you can’t 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’s no good, for that dark companion stays on your heels

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)

Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror

Anger is a brief madness.

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?)

The story is told of yourself.

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

So, if you don't summon a book and a light before dawn,If you don't set your mind on honest aims and pursuits,On waking, you'll be tortured by envy or lust.Why so quick to remove a speck from your eye, whenIf it's your mind, you put off the cure till next year?Who's started has half finished: dare to be wise: begin!

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

Faults are soon copied.

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

Now is the time to drink!

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

Better to accept whatever happens.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Adversity reveals genius prosperity conceals it.

Whatever advice you give be short.

Anger is momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.

A picture is a poem without words.

Well begun is half done.

In times of stress be bold and valiant.

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.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.

Anger is a short madness.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

He who is greedy is always in want.

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!

Never despair.

I teach that all men are mad.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

One cannot know everything.

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.

Live mindful of how brief your life is.

Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.

He possesses dominion over himself and is happy who can every day say "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds or cheer it with clear sunshine he will not however render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

No one is content with his own lot.

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.

A picture is a poem without words.

The man is either mad or he is making verses.

Let your poem be kept nine years.

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.

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

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.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.