In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Most virtue lies between two vices.
The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.