Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.

We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.