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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
[Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
[Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.
An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your
wild oats.
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your
wild oats.
The pain
Remembrance gives, when the fix'd dart
Is stirred thus in the wound again.
The pain
Remembrance gives, when the fix'd dart
Is stirred thus in the wound again.
But who alas! can love and then be wise?
But who alas! can love and then be wise?
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
Most men are bad.
Most men are bad.
