When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.

When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

When you are alone you are all your own.

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When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.