If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.