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 When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.

The gods methinks must laugh when a prosperous man puts up a prayer [for more].

Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.

It is easy for women to shed tears without salt.

One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another, like a mother.

Fear lest a day snatch away what a single day has acquired.

It is hard to keep that which every one covets.

Turn a deaf ear to calumnious reports.

Yesterday should be the teacher of to-day.

Discord gives a relish for concord.

Reflect on every thing you hear, but believe only on proof.

Preparations for war should be long in making, that victory more be the more speedy.

Divide the fire, and you will the sooner put it out.

Mental pain is harder to bear than the corporeal.

When pain cannot increase, it dies away.