He who fears from near at hand often fears less.
We pardon familiar vices.
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.