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.
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.