And whoso counts me but a fool for leaving a tender maid untouched when I have her in my house, to him I say, he measures purity by the vicious standard of his own soul, a standard like himself. (View Highlight)
For when the toiler cometh to his home from the field, it is pieasanr to find all comfortable in the house. (View Highlight)
For no idler, though he has the gods’ names ever on his lips, can gather a liveli- hood without hard work. (View Highlight)
For pity, though it has no place in clownish natures, is inborn in the wise; still it may cause mischief to find excessive cleverness amongst the wise. (View Highlight)
Nay, poverty suffers from this, that it teaches a man to play the villain from necessity. (View Highlight)
learn to judge men by their converse, and by their habits decide who are noble. (View Highlight)
A woman, when she chooses, can find dainties in plenty to garnish a feast. (View Highlight)
Besides, thou couldst find many, whose hair is of the same colour, albeit not sprung from the same blood. (View Highlight)
May thy counsel prove good, and my per- ception keen! (View Highlight)
and as he was bending down, thy brother rose on tiptoe and smote him on the spine, severing the vertebrae of his back; and his body gave one convulsive shudder from head to foot and writhed in the death-agony. (View Highlight)
whoso defiles his neighbour’s wife, and afterward is forced to take her to himself, is a wretched wight, if he supposes she will be chaste as his wife, though she sinned against her former lord. (View Highlight)
‘Tis nature that stands fast, not wealth. For it, if it abide unchanged, exalts man’s horn; but riches dishonestly acquired and in the hands of fools, soon take their flight, their blossom quickly shed. (View Highlight)
Our folk are hard to please, and love scandal. (View Highlight)
when a woman gets an evil reputation, there is a feeling of bitterness against all she says; (View Highlight)
for vice is a warning and calls attention to virtue. (View Highlight)
Chance rules the marriages of women; some I see turn out well, others ill, amongst mankind. (View Highlight)