Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.
I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!
This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.
Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.
O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!