Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.
Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.