The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
[Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
[Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]

If you must flie, flie well.

If you must flie, flie well.

The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the
sword; the one uses it as a means read more

The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the
sword; the one uses it as a means of attack, the other as a means
of defence.

He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.

He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to
Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to
Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

Think, ye may buy the joys o'er dear,
Remember Tam o'Shanter's mare.

Think, ye may buy the joys o'er dear,
Remember Tam o'Shanter's mare.

The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.

The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.

The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.

The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.

Pleasure is often the introduction to pain.

Pleasure is often the introduction to pain.