If you want to live happy, live hidden from sight!”
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I find more force and truth in some verses by a friend of mine, of which these are a translation:
Among the beasts a tale is told
How a poor Cricket ventured nigh
His door to catch the sun’s warm gold
And saw a radiant Butterfly.
She passed with tails thrown proudly back
And long gay rows of crescents blue,
Brave yellow stars and bands of black,