Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.
The brave find a home in every land.
As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.