Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.
Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.
To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.