Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.
The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]
While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]
If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris, (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]
Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]
A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]
A pleasing face is no small advantage.
Courage conquers all things.
Leve fit quod bene fertur onus. The burden which is well borne becomes light.
If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.
That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.
Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.
A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.
Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.
Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.
It is ill to marry in the month of May.
Simplicity, very rare in our age.
Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
Love is no assignment for cowards.
Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.
If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love
How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand