Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.
We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.