Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
One often has need of one inferior to himself.
We heed no instincts but our own.
A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.