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Quidquid agas, prudenter agas, et respice finem.

Whatever you do, do cautiously, and look to the end.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

Thus passes the glory of the world.

Tags: Advice, Life

Vita brevis,ars longa,occasio praeceps,experimentum periculosum,iudicium difficile.

Life is short,
and art long,
opportunity fleeting,
experimentations perilous,
and judgement difficult.

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Sedula curavi, humanas actiones non ridere, non lugere, neque detestare, sed intelligere.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

‘Tractatus Politicus’ 1, 4

‘Pone seram, cohibe.’ Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? Cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor.

‘Bolt her in, keep her indoors.’ But who is to guard the guards themselves? Your wife arranges accordingly and begins with them.

‘Satires’ no. 6, l. 347 Juvenal