Experience is the only good 'tis safer to borrow than to buy.
To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep.
It needs as much generosity to take as to give.
The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.
However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.