The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.