For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.

Be gentle with the young.

Let him love none and be by none beloved!

Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.