Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.
Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.
I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.
The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'
You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.