Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen
For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
The present will not long endure.
Water is the best of all things.
Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?