We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.
A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.
He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.