Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.
Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.
Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.
Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.
Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.
It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.