What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.
Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.
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.
Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.