If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.