"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.

To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

Let Apella the Jew believe it.