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There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
Often a silent face has voice and words.
[Lat., Saepe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet.]
Often a silent face has voice and words.
[Lat., Saepe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet.]
Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow.
Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow.
There is as much love between you and me as between the wolf and
the lamb.
There is as much love between you and me as between the wolf and
the lamb.
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.
Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.
Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.
All our pompe the earth covers.
All our pompe the earth covers.
Not even the gods can withstand necessity.
Not even the gods can withstand necessity.
Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.
Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.
