Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.
I criticize myself ruthlessly, but never mention the faults of which I am truly ashamed.
Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.
Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.
The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.
Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children.