The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
A friend of everyone is a friend of no one
It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.
Man by nature wants to know.
There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.