Make a good use of the present.
Half is done when the beginning is done.
The words can not return.
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]