Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)