A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.
Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.
He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .
We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.
For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.