Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
To grow a philosopher's beard.
Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.
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.
When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.