When We Are Understood, We Always Speak

In Order To Prove A Friend To One's Guests, Frugality Must Reign In One's Meals; And, According To An Ancient Saying, One Must Eat To Live, Not Live To Eat.

I Prefer An Interesting Vice To A Virtue That Bores.

Gold Gives To The Ugliest Thing A Certain Charming Air, For That Without It Were Else A Miserable Affair.

Birth Means Nothing Where There Is No Virtue.

Esteem Must Be Founded On Preference: To Hold Everyone In High Esteem Is To Esteem Nothing.