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Reunion after long separation is even better than one's wedding night.
Reunion after long separation is even better than one's wedding night.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what
the morrow will bring with it.
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what
the morrow will bring with it.
Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no
evil, and to grow pale at read more
Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no
evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the
manner of his forefathers cultivates with his read more
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.
Though fame is smoke,
Its fumes are frankincense to human thought.
Though fame is smoke,
Its fumes are frankincense to human thought.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]
Punishment follows close on the heels of crime.
Punishment follows close on the heels of crime.
