Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.