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No choice amongst stinking fish.
No choice amongst stinking fish.
The rose is often found near the nettle.
The rose is often found near the nettle.
I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the
worse!
I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the
worse!
Not even the gods can withstand necessity.
Not even the gods can withstand necessity.
The envious will die, but envy never.
[Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
The envious will die, but envy never.
[Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
You began better than you have finished; the last act is not
equal to the first.
You began better than you have finished; the last act is not
equal to the first.
Hee stands not surely, that never slips.
Hee stands not surely, that never slips.
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly
old men, not to age itself.
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly
old men, not to age itself.
