It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.