Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.
Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.
Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.