It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.
The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!