Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

There is no place more delightful than home.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.