Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.