Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

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.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.