What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.
To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.