Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!

Man proposes, God disposes.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!