The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

Savage bears agree with one another.

There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.