The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
How easy love makes fools of us.
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat