Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.

Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]