Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.

There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.