I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
A short absence is the safest.
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.
There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.