The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love.
Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.
The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
Reason deceives us more often than does nature.
Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.