An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

A gift in time of need is most acceptable.

Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.

That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Everything changes, nothing is lost.

Love is a kind of military service