We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.
Character is simply habit long continued.
As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.