In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.
A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.
Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.