When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.
Wisdom at times is found in folly.
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.