One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

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

Great men should not have great faults.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.