A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.
Even women are perfect at the outset.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.
It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.