Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right.

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.