Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
When the mischief is done the door is shut.
There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.
A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.
An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.
For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh.
Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.
Let him love none and be by none beloved!
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
The arrows are from her dowry.
The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish.
He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.
Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.
Wisdom triumphs over chance.
Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.
Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.
Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.
It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.
A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.
There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.
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