The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, is called love.