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“They invite me up and down to feasts, if I have only need of a slight breakfast: my faithful friend is he who will give me one loaf when he has but two.


Whilst we live, let us live well: for be a man never so rich, when he lights his fire, Death may perhaps enter his door, before it be burnt out.


“It is better to have a son late than never. One seldom sees sepulchral stones raised over the graves of the dead, by any other hands but those of their own offspring.


“Riches pass away like the twinkling of an eye: of all friends they are the most inconstant. Flocks perish; relations die; friends are not immortal; you will die yourself: but I know one thing alone that, is out of the reach of fate: and that is the judgment which is passed upon the dead.


“Let not the wisest be imperious, but modest: for he will find by experience, that when he is among those that are powerful, he is not the most mighty.