The proof is in the pudding.

For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

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

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.