(Acts, not words; motto of the United States Merchant Marine Academy) (Ease with dignity; from Cicero's Pro Sestius.)
(As runners we pass on the torch of life; from Lucretius's De rerum natura.)
(Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself; from Seneca's Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium.)
(Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek out the truth; from Book 1 of Cicero's Tusculanae Disputationes.)
(Acts, not words; motto of the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
(Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth; from Horace's Odes.)
(I urge you, as much as I am able, to place friendship above all human issues; from Cicero's de Amicitia.)
Omnes...summa ope niti decet, ne vitam silentio transeant.
(It benefits all to strive with greatest effort, lest they pass their lives in silence; from Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 1.1) Sibi quisque ruri metit.
(Each harvests one's own farm; from Plautus, Mostellaria 3.2) (Let us go singing as far as we go – the road will be less tedious; from Vergil, Eclogues 9.64) (They who rush across the sea change their sky, not their soul; from Horace, Epistles 1.11) (Many things which are naturally difficult are solved by ingenuity; from Livy, Ab Urbe Condita 25.11)