Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much..

I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the p….

The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke..

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation..

There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean a….

He tells old wives' tales much to the point..

Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds….

Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last….

Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?.

In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions..

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas").

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at..

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius..

He is praised by some, blamed by others..

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself..

He, that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues tha….

Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger..

Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.].

Anger is a brief lunacy..

Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full..

Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?].