Помни днесь и присно,Что при враге не надобно болтать.Ты раб того, кто сможет передатьСлова твои. Будь в жизни незаметен,Страшись всегда и новостей и сплетен.Равно – правдивы ли они иль ложны;Запомни,...
La honradez y la buena vida siempre andan disociados, cuando se trata de gente pobre.
Three years went by in happiness and health; He bore himself so well in peace and war That there was no one Theseus valued more.
The man who has no wife is no cuckold.
Love will not be constrain'd by mastery.When mast'ry comes, the god of love anonBeateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone.Love is a thing as any spirit free.
High in moral virtue was his speech, and gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
Time and tide wait for no man.
Woe to him who is alone, since, if he falls, he has no help to rise.
—La compasión surge rápidamente de los nobles corazones que sienten los agudos aguijonazos que sufren otros como en su propia carne;
If gold rust, what shall iron do? For if a Priest, upon whom we trust, be foul, no wonder a layman may yield to lust.
Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Throgh me men gon into that blysful placeOf hertes hele and dedly woundes cure;Thorgh me men gon unto the welle of grace,There grene and lusty May shal evere endure.This is the wey to al good aventure...
This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo,And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.
Ne nevere mo ne lakked hire pite;Tendre-herted, slydynge of corage;But trewely, I kan nat telle hire age.
Los amigos que un hombre hace en la prosperidad creo que le convertirán en enemigos en la adversidad,
A faithful servant is more diligent in keeping your goods safe than is your own wife, because she will claim a half part of your worth all her life.
Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit.
When that Aprille with his shoures sote.The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote,
Though there was nowhere one so busy as he/ He was less busy than he seemed to be.
La avaricia es la causa de todos los vicios.