They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

There is no place more delightful than home.

Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.