For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.
Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.