Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.
The people’s prayer, the glad diviner’s theme, The young men’s vision, and the old men’s dream!
He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey’d, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
God never made his work for man to mend.
When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.
Drinking is the soldier’s pleasure.
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
Successful crimes alone are justified.
Honor is but an empty bubble.
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
And plenty makes us poor.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.