The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?
Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
You talk one way, you live another.
So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.