The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.

Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.

Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.