Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.
There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.