You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.
That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.
He is praised by some, blamed by others.