The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.

The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

When you are at Rome, do as you see.

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.

Little said is soon amended.