No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")

He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]

He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.

No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.