When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.
As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris
The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.
Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.