A Truce To Idle Phrases!

Do Not Bandy Words With Your Father, Nor Treat Him As A Dotard, Nor Reproach The Old Man, Who Has Cherished You, With His Age.

The Love Of Wine Is A Good Man's Failing.

A Fox Is Subtlety Itself.

A Man May Learn Wisdom Even From A Foe.

Ye Children Of Man! Whose Life Is A Span, Protracted With Sorrow From Day To Day, Naked And Featherless, Feeble And Querulous, Sickly, Calamitous Creatures Of Clay!