Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew, The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,-too many, yet how few!

The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Heaven gives its favourites-early death.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.