Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.

Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.

Better to suffer than to die.

It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.

We heed no instincts but our own.