Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

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 appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.