Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.
In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.
What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion
It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.