Sudden love is latest cured.

People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.