There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.
In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.
You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.
It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.
One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.
A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.