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!

He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.

The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.

If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.