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That is not good language which all understand not.
That is not good language which all understand not.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
Know thyself.
[Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]
Know thyself.
[Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]
The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes.
The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes.
Much matter decocted into few words.
Much matter decocted into few words.