It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.

I suspect that hunger was my mother.

To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.