Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
Wine and women bring misery.
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear... But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.
He writes nothing whose writings are not read.
Spare the person but lash the vice.
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
Be merry if you are wise.
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.
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