The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.