Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.

The rose is often found near the nettle.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.