Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.

Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.

He can afford to be a fool.

Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.