It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.
Music is an incitement to love.
It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.