What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.
Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.
Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.