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Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit
us when our wealth is gone.
Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit
us when our wealth is gone.
Nothing is achieved without toil.
Nothing is achieved without toil.
Thus the whirligig of time
Brings in his revenges.
Thus the whirligig of time
Brings in his revenges.
For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty,
all-powerful money gives them all.
For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty,
all-powerful money gives them all.
Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age
will bring its wrinkles to read more
That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age
will bring its wrinkles to the brow.
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
Condemn the fault, but not the actor of it.
Condemn the fault, but not the actor of it.