Life is halfe spent before we know what it is.

Life is halfe spent before we know what it is.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
[Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
[Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]

Swiftly our pleasures glide away,
Our hearts recall the distant day
With many sighs.

Swiftly our pleasures glide away,
Our hearts recall the distant day
With many sighs.

A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.

A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who
inquires what is said of him only read more

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who
inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

In a long journey straw waighs.

In a long journey straw waighs.

He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood.

He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood.

Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel.

Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel.

The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.

The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.