Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

We are never so generous as when giving advice.