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Sit in your place and none can make you rise.
Sit in your place and none can make you rise.
We plough the sand on the sea shore.
We plough the sand on the sea shore.
The Lame goes as farre as your staggerer.
The Lame goes as farre as your staggerer.
Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.
Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.
Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.)
[Lat., Ne laterum laves.]
Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.)
[Lat., Ne laterum laves.]
One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a
hundred sons one father.
One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a
hundred sons one father.
Praise none too much, for all are fickle.
Praise none too much, for all are fickle.
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied
with his own, as a matter read more
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied
with his own, as a matter of course.