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.
Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.
Get money first; virtue comes after.
Nature is harmony in discord.
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.