Conscience is a God to all mortals. Menander
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. Thomas Mann
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. W. H. Auden
Look to your health and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of a blessing that money cannot buy. Izaak Walton
The evil is dreaded by men but not heaven; the kind-hearted is cheated by mortals but not God. Chinese Proverb
Life has given nothing to mortals without great labor. [Nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus.]. Latin Proverb