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From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.
The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
The tongue talkes at the heads cost.
The tongue talkes at the heads cost.
The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.
The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.
It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
[Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]
It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
[Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]