From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
From Lucretius
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
The sum of all sums is eternity.
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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