Chapter 2

When love has once taken firm hold of a man in riper years

When a friend refuses to share in joys

When men-children deem maids to be weak and unfit for true sport

When hate and revenge speak, gratitude shrinks timidly

When you want to strike me again, mother, please take off

Whether the form of our benevolence does more good or mischief

Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings

Whether the historical romance is ever justifiable

Who watches for his neighbour's faults has a hundred sharp eyes

Who can point out the road that another will take

Who can be freer than he who needs nothing

Who only puts on his armor when he is threatened

Who does not struggle ward, falls back

Who gives great gifts, expects great gifts again

Who do all they are able and enjoy as much as they can get

Who can take pleasure in always seeing a gloomy face?

Who can prop another's house when his own is falling

Who can hope to win love that gives none

Whoever condemns, feels himself superior

Whoever will not hear, must feel

Wide world between the purpose and the deed

Wise men hold fast by the ever young present

Without heeding the opinion of mortals

Woman who might win the love of a highly-gifted soul (Pays for it)

Woman's disapproving words were blown away by the wind

Woman's hair is long, but her wit is short

Women are indeed the rock ahead in this young fellow's life

Wonder we leave for the most part to children and fools

Words that sounded kindly, but with a cold, unloving heart

Wrath has two eyes--one blind, the other keener than a falcon's

Ye play with eternity as if it were but a passing moment

Years are the foe of beauty

You have a habit of only looking backwards

Young Greek girls pass their sad childhood in close rooms

Youth should be modest, and he was assertive

Youth calls 'much,' what seems to older people 'little'

Zeus pays no heed to lovers' oaths

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