When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.
One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.
Restrain thy mind, and let mildness ever attend thy tongue.
Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock . Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue.
Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.
Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.