We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.

The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.

Life is a warfare against the malice of others.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

The worthless usually live long.