Out of difficulties grow miracles.
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.
Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.
Rarely do they appear great before their valets.
Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.