Joking apart, now let us be serious.

Joking apart, now let us be serious.

A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.

A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.

While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.

While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age,
nor the advance of death, which cannot be read more

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age,
nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

I am myself a man, and nothing relating to men is a matter of
indifference to me.

I am myself a man, and nothing relating to men is a matter of
indifference to me.

Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most
powerful are broken down by discord.

Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most
powerful are broken down by discord.

Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]

Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]

It is not permitted that we should know everything.

It is not permitted that we should know everything.

From his silence a man's consent is inferred.

From his silence a man's consent is inferred.