Absence - that common cure of love.
They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
Think not I am what I appear.
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.
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.