Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.