O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?
The mind that's conscious of its rectitude, Laughs at the lies of rumor.
Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)
As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.
Pleasant words are the food of love.
An injury may prove a blessing.
A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.
It is a kingly act to help the fallen.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.
He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.
There is something in omens.
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]
Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.
Trivial losses often prove great gains.
The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.
Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.
What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.
Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
To give requires good sense.
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