If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?