Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

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

It is not permitted that we should know everything.

We are all gathered to the same fold.

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.