It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
The part of life which we really live is short.
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world’s caprice, you will never be rich.
It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.
Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
True love hates and will not bear delay.
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
If you wish to be loved, love.
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.