Gifts are like hooks.
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.