Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
A shy face is better than a forward heart.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.