As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
Blushing is the color of virtue.
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.