The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.
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.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.