To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.
Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.
Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.
Joking apart, now let us be serious.
My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.
Never without a shilling in my purse.
Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.
The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.
The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.
The bowl dispels corroding cares.
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.
Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.
Take heed lest you stumble.
Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.