Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

Punishment follows close on crime.

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

On day is pressed on by another.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.