» Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
» It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
» The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
» Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
» Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
» Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
» Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
» We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
» One returns to the place one came from.
» One often has need of one, inferior to himself.