We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
My men have become women, but the women men.
Chances rule men and not men chances.
It is better to be envied than pitied.
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.