A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.
In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.
Without big words, how could many people say small things?
When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.
The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.