Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.
... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.
Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.
It is easier to win love than to keep it.
It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.
It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.