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Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and
successful by examples.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and
successful by examples.
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits
beyond, or within which, that which is right read more
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits
beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.
Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
Still to remember wrongs?
Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
Still to remember wrongs?
Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home.
Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home.
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.
I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.
So many men in Court and so many strangers.
So many men in Court and so many strangers.
Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his
physician his heir.
Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his
physician his heir.