The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
No one every suddenly became depraved.
Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
Many commit the same crime with a different destiny one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things.
The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.
The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
Wisdom overcomes fortune.
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories