There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.