Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure
A novice always behaves with propriety.
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
I know all that better than my own name.