Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.
Plant no other tree before the vine.
Joking apart, now let us be serious.
He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.