Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

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

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.