Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.

The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.