Art lies by its own artifice.

Dripping water hollows out a stone

She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Either attempt it not, or succeed.