A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

Silence is the virtue of fools.