It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.
Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.