Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year. [Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.]
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