Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.
Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.