Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?
The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.
Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.