Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.
Punishment follows close on crime.
Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.
Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]