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Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless,
avarice is never satisfied.
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless,
avarice is never satisfied.
'Tis godlike to have power, but not to kill.
'Tis godlike to have power, but not to kill.
Of a new Prince, new bondage.
Of a new Prince, new bondage.
The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.
The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.
Rome was not built in a day.
Rome was not built in a day.
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone!
When warring winds have read more
How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone!
When warring winds have died away,
And clouds, beneath the glancing ray,
Melt off, and leave the land and sea
Sleeping in bright tranquillity.
Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,
And with a virtuous vizor hide deep vice!
Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,
And with a virtuous vizor hide deep vice!
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
