Although there exist many thousands of subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
Ask no favors and people everywhere are affable; if you don’t drink, it doesn’t matter what price wine is.
Never does a woman lie in a more cunning way than when she tells the truth to someone who doesn’t believe her.
The conversation of the wise concerns ideas; that of the intelligent is about ideas; the common folk talk about food.
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.