If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
The word is the shadow of the deed.
Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.