That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.

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.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.