Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
Brighter than Parian marble.
God has joined the innocent with the guilty.
Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.
Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.
Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.
Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.
Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.
Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.
Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
Dull winter will re-appear.
Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.