If you can talk about it, why paint it?
Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?
Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.