A motto for life: Festina Lente

Photo credit: Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Detail of
the Portrait of Cosimo de' Medici by Giorgio Vasari
1559-1560. 

"Festina Lente" is an expression in Latin that we find widely in Palazzo Vecchio as a writing or under the shape of  a turtle.

The motto was selected by  Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence as his emblem along with the Capricorn.

It is better known as "impresum" (tr. symbol or image) according to the Renaissance tradition of selecting a maxim that was meaningful of the intentions of the princely personality.

The literal translation of "Festina Lente" is "make haste slowly" and the complete representation is a turtle with an inflated sail.