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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
I'm what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.
To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
From no place can you exclude the fates. [Lat., Nullo fata loco possis excludere.]
Whoever is not too wise is wise. [Lat., Quisquis plus justo non sapit, ille sapit.]
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my master.]
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, "I do not love thee."
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!