To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.
If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.
We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.
Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.