Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.
There is no retracing our steps.
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.