While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred cosmetics boxes - even your face does not sleep with you.

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!

Be merry if you are wise.

Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.