Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

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