Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.