Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.
Music is an incitement to love.