To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice..

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today..

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst..

Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to husband by my wife. The mistress of the house should ….

Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity..

Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well..

Givers of great dinners know few enemies..

It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent..

It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them..

Wine and women bring misery..

Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure..

Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it..

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; y….

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful..

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere..

It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.

He writes nothing whose writings are not read..

Be merry if you are wise..

He who weighs his burdens, can bear them..

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it..