A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!