In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.

Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.