There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.

The mind cannot long play the heart's role.