The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
Isn't the best defense always a good attack?
That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.