A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.
The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.
I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.
Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.