Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.