But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle. [Lat. , Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque. ]
It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat. , Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana. ]
You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat. , Male vincetis, sed vincite. ]
Man proposes, but God disposes. [Lat. , Nam homo proponit, sed Deus disponit. ]
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat. , Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis. ]
Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!