The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.
No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.
Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.
Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen well and to answer well are some of the greatest charms we can have in conversation.