All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.

Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are so many witnesses against you; and this grand display of their tarnished glory but serves to make your ignominy more evident.

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.

Who is content with nothing possesses all things.