It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.
He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.