If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

A woman always has her revenge ready.

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.