The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.
Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.