There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.