Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after the least we miss the greatest.
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
We are never so generous as when giving advice.
Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.