- By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
- Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
- Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
- Envy is the ulcer of the soul.


