The Learned Understand The Reason Of Art;

Everything That Has A Beginning Comes To An End.

While We Ponder When To Begin, It Becomes Too Late To Do.

(slaughter) Means Blood And Iron. [lat., Coedes Videtur Significare Sanguinem Et Ferrum.]

Virtue, Though She Gets Her Beginning From Nature, Yet Receives Her Finishing Touches From Learning.

Medicine For The Dead Is Too Late