One has no friend who has many friends.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.

Well begun is half done.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.