Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight..

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden..

Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage..

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard..

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory..

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times..

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike..

The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the ….

Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor does the man who by….

Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right..

Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind..

Base men who prosper are unenviable..

In war the first casualty is the truth..

They who prosper take on airs of vanity..

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering..

God loves to help him who strives to help himself..

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence..

Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich..

Number, the most excellent of all inventions..

But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given to man..