So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

A lie is an excuse guarded

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.