What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
He is not poor who has a competency.
Nothing is achieved without toil.