If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.