Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.