Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.