To Love Is Human, It

That's A Miserable And Cursed Word, To Say I Had, When What I Have Is Nothing.

He Who Seeks For Gain, Must Be At Some Expense.

For Nobody Is Curious, Who Isn't Malevolent.

The Gods Confound The Man Who First Found Out How To Distinguish Hours! Confound Him, Too, Who In This Place Set Up A Sun-dial, To Cut And Hack My Days So Wretchedly Into Small Portions.

Keep What You Have Got; The Known Evil Is Best. [lat., Habeas Ut Nactus; Nota Mala Res Optima Est.]