There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.

The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

Make a good use of the present.

I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.

Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.