Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.

To grow a philosopher's beard.

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.