Nothing is swifter than rumor.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.
Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.