The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.
Half is done when the beginning is done.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.