We are never content with our lot.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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.
Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?