What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.
Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.