Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.

Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.

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.

Foes, friends, men, women, now are nought to me
But dreams of what has been, no more to be.

Foes, friends, men, women, now are nought to me
But dreams of what has been, no more to be.

Successful villany is called virtue.

Successful villany is called virtue.

Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit,
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.

Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit,
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.

Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.

Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.

Idle people have the least leisure.

Idle people have the least leisure.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

'Tis said the lion will turn and flee
From a maid in the pride of her purity.

'Tis said the lion will turn and flee
From a maid in the pride of her purity.