We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.
Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.
Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.
If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.