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That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.
The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest.
Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.
Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.
While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.
The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.
The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?
He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.
Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.
Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
If a better system's thine, Impart it frankly, or make use of mine.
Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.
No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.
O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.
Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.
It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat
When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?
Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.
Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!
I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.