All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.
Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.
In giving advice I advise you, be short.
A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.