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Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.
Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.
While I plan, and plan, my hair
Is gray before I know it.
While I plan, and plan, my hair
Is gray before I know it.
Love and life are for to-day.
Love and life are for to-day.
He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.
He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle.
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle.
Set good against evill.
[Set good against evil.]
Set good against evill.
[Set good against evil.]
Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it
will turn sour.
Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it
will turn sour.
The market is the best garden.
The market is the best garden.
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
circulated.