Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.
Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.
Since we hate the same people, we should be friends.
Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.