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.
Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.
The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh.
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
The arrows are from her dowry.
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
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.
To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]
I only feel, but want the power to paint.
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.
A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.
The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.
Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]
Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
Men who only live to eat.
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