This exercise is designed to give students practice paraphrasing and summarizing. After each of the following aphorisms please create a comment box in which you paraphrase the meaning of the original. Try to avoid using any of the original words in your paraphrase.
Pleasure is brief as a flash of lightning, or like an autumn shower, only for a moment.
Nothing can harm a good man, either in life or after death. Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.