Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

A man must become wise at his own expense.

I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.