Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.

Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.

This even-handed justice
Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips.

This even-handed justice
Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips.

That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently
learnt.

That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently
learnt.

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can
be successful without being envied read more

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can
be successful without being envied and hated.]

Miseries of which I was an eye witness and in which I took a
chief part.

Miseries of which I was an eye witness and in which I took a
chief part.

Let him fry in his own grease.

Let him fry in his own grease.

There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the
nut.

There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the
nut.

He that passeth a winters day escapes an enemy.

He that passeth a winters day escapes an enemy.