It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding.

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.