When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
None but the brave deserve the fair.
An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become.
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best.