The Lark And Her Young Ones With The Owner Of A Field
“Depend on yourself alone,”
Has to a common proverb grown.
It’s thus confirmed in Aesop’s way:
The larks to build their nests are seen
Book 4
The Eye of the Master
A stag took refuge from the chase
Among the oxen of a stable,
Who counseled him, as says the fable,
To seek at once some safer place.
The Miser Who Had Lost His Treasure
It’s use that constitutes possession.
I ask that sort of men, whose passion
It is to get and never spend,
Of all their toil what is the end?
The Oracle and the Atheist
That man his Maker can deceive,
Is monstrous folly to believe.
The labyrinthine mazes of the heart
Are open to His eyes in every part.
The Old Man And His Sons
All power is feeble with dissension:
For this I quote the Phrygian slave.
If anything I add to his invention,
It is our manners to engrave,
The Words Of Socrates
A house was built by Socrates
That failed the public taste to please.
Some blamed the inside; some, the out; and all
Agreed that the apartments were too small.