"Beauty's a fragile boon, and the years are quick to destroy it, Always diminished with time, never enduring too long."

"What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire."

"Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes)."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

"Et latet et lucet."