He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

Don't think, just do.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

While we talk hostile, time flies away.

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

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.