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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.

Check disease in its approach.

He who conquers, endures.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta suppellex.

Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.

The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

Each man has his fancy.

For Yesterday was once To-morrow.

The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.

The belly is the giver of genius.

Indulge, and to thy genius freely give,
For not to live at ease is not to live.

Live according to your income.

Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.

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.

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.

Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her.
[Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]

The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.

You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).
[Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?

Things fit only to give weight to smoke.

I know you even under the skin.

Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.

Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.

O natal star, thou producest twins of widely different character.
[Lat., Geminos, horoscope, varo Producis genio.]

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.
[Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!