If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

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