Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.
Every man carries the entire form of human condition.
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.
Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
Time steals away without any inconvenience.
To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.