Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.
Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.