It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!

Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.