The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.
Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.