The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.
Plant no other tree before the vine.
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
It is not permitted that we should know everything.
The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.