We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.

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

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.