Rarely do they appear great before their valets.
Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.
The reason that women do not love one another is - men.
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.
Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.
A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.