The ass bears the load, but not the overload.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

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

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

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