Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.