The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
Talent is long patience.
Exuberance is better than taste.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.