Virtue alone is happiness below.

Virtue alone is happiness below.

What king so strong,
Can tie the gall up in a slanderer's tongue?

What king so strong,
Can tie the gall up in a slanderer's tongue?

Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.

Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.

Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.

Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.

He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.

He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.

Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.

Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.

Who hastens a glutton choakes him.

Who hastens a glutton choakes him.

There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.

There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.

Whose nature is so far from doing harms,
That he suspects none.

Whose nature is so far from doing harms,
That he suspects none.