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Know thyself.
[Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]
Know thyself.
[Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]
What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.
A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble
about.
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble
about.
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.
He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.
A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that
carries gold and eats thistles.
A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that
carries gold and eats thistles.
