Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.
In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.
The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.
The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.