Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.