Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Honor is but an empty bubble.
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
