Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

Those alone are wise who know how to love.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Forgive that you may be forgiven.

Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.

For greed, all nature is too little.

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.