A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
He is always a slave who cannot live on little.