Many people who pretend to be very busy have the least to do.

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

When desire dies, fear is born.

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first day they give pleasure to the owner, but in all the rest to the others: what belongs to another rejoices doubly, because it is without the risk of going stale and with the satisfaction of freshness. . . the possession of things not only diminishes their enjoyment, but augments their annoyance, whether shared or not shared.