If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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.
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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.
Gifts are like hooks.