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O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil.
O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil.
We must love, as looking one day to hate.
We must love, as looking one day to hate.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Who eates his cock alone must saddle his horse alone.
Who eates his cock alone must saddle his horse alone.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
To gaine teacheth how to spend.
To gaine teacheth how to spend.
This is the real secret of all that indignation.
This is the real secret of all that indignation.
Know thyself.
[Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]
Know thyself.
[Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]