What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
The wavering mind is but a base possession.
I care for riches, to make gifts.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.
Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.